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depuration
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depuration (dēˈ·pyˑ·rā·shn),
n in environmental medicine, the cleansing of impurities from the body.


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1998) to guard against the introduction of zebra mussels, this quarantine could also offer the opportunity for mussels to depurate pathogens.
At 60 dph, 60 fish from each treatment were transferred to clean water to depurate in order to compare a short-term exposure to treated WwTW effluent in early life (fertilization to 60 dph) with a chronic exposure from fertilization through to the completion of sexual differentiation (300 dph).
Fish that survive brevetoxin exposures are able to depurate some of the toxins via the biliary route and other metabolic processes (Kennedy et al.
 
 
 
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